Followup to: <38DC06D2.5D6A9CD@sgi.com>By author: Linda Walsh <law@sgi.com>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel> > I think there should be a 2nd system call with semantics like> 'vfork' or IRIX's sproc that explicitly allows data segment sharing> so only stack space needs to be allocated for the fork to work.> Current fork -- I lean toward not overcommitting -- it seems more> proper.>

You mean like vfork()? Or clone()?

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